Friday, October 7, 2011

"If you can't get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance"
-George Bernard Shaw

I like this quote. I am currently taking Genealogy 1000, the beginning class at Salt Lake Community College. It is an online class and has been very interesting. In this class we are counselled to research our family history so we can "put flesh and bones on the family skeletons." I am thankful there are so many resources today to help me do this.

Monday, April 18, 2011

On Saturday April 16, 2010 I attended the Saturday Seminar at the Riverton Family History Library. The key note speaker was Tim Cross who spoke about ways for ward family history consultants to introduce members to New Family Search and to pique their interest in family history. He introduced me to Tree Seek where family tree charts can be printed out for no cost. Tree Seek links to your New Family Search account and takes the information for the pdf charts from your database in New Family Search. I applied what I learned on Sunday April 17 by printing off some of my own charts. I taught my husband how to do it (for practice) and then I went to a ward member's house and got her signed up for New Family Search and helped her print off a nine-generation chart.

At the Riverton Saturday Seminar I also attended a class on English Research taught by Raymon Naisbitt and a class on New England Research taught by Jason B. Harrison. These presentations were very interesting and I am excited to do research in England and New England as I have time.

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About Me

Jeanette lives in West Jordan, Utah. She owns Drake Family Farms Goat Dairy along with her husband Ron and sons Richard and Dan. Dan also has a goat dairy in Ontario, California. So there is a Drake Family Farms -- Utah and a Drake Family Farms -- California.

On the Utah farm there are Saanen, Nubian and Alpine dairy goats. Every goat has a name and is registered with the American Dairy Goat Association. The Drake Family has been raising dairy goats since the 1980s. They take pride in breeding quality animals. They participate in DHIA testing and ADGA linear appraisal. They use artificial insemination for some of their breeding and have collected from their best bucks and offer semen for sale. Quality dairy goat animals is the foundation of quality goat milk products.

Some of the quality products of Drake Family Farms are goat milk (Raw and Grade A pasteurized), goat milk yogurt, many kinds of goat milk cheese, handmade goat milk soap, goat milk emollient cream and goat milk lotion. They sell raw goat milk as well as all the other products at a small store located on their farm in West Jordan. Other products are available at other retail locations and online.